passings
Glenn Branca, composer, guitarist, October 6, 1948-May 13, 2018
Live, Washington, D.C., 2012
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Live (Symphony No. 16 [Orgasm], First Mvt.), Paris, 2015
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That was fast.
I mean life.—Ron Padgett, “Haiku”
on & on & . . .
Lyn Horton, Goldmine Brook: The Day After Christmas (2011)
Glenn Branca, Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar (1980, reissued 2004)
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Glenn Branca Ensemble, live, New York (The Kitchen), 1995; Symphony No. 8 (“The Mystery” [1992]), Symphony No. 10 (“The Mystery, Part 2” [1994])
Got some headphones? This should be played loud.
More? How ’bout a (terrific) live performance, recorded yesterday at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival? Go to WFMU-FM; click, under “Recently added archives” (lower left corner), “5/27/11: Live Broadcasts and Special Events”—Branca starts at 2:05.
Still more? Here.
recipe
take one electric guitar
add another
& another
& . . .
Glenn Branca Ensemble, Symphony No. 5, live, New York (The Kitchen), 1984
Part 1
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Part 2
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Born . . . in 1949, [Glenn Branca] . . . ignored rock until attracted to the repetitiveness of certain songs by the Kinks and Paul Revere and the Raiders. He claims to have taught himself composition by listening to guitar feedback at point-blank range for forty-five minutes at a time.
—Kyle Gann, American Music in the Twentieth Century (1997)
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